Poland Investigates Threat Against Tusk and Defence Minister

Polish authorities are investigating information about a possible plot to assassinate Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, who is also deputy prime minister. The report says police received information about the alleged threat, but officials have not disclosed its origin or other details. Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka said on social media that the ministry had ordered action to be taken. She also announced an emergency meeting on Sunday involving police, the state protection service and ministry representatives to discuss the situation. After the meeting, special services spokesperson Jacek Dobrzynski told reporters that authorities regarded the information as serious, according to local media. Polsat News reported that Dobrzynski said further action had been decided, but did not provide details. Separately, Radio Zet reported that police had received an email containing information about the threat. Tusk and Kosiniak-Kamysz had not commented at the time of publication. The article provides no confirmation of an actual operational plot, suspects, or specific planned actions; it describes an allegation under review by authorities and says that more information was not immediately available.

Polish authorities convened an emergency meeting at the Internal Security Agency’s Counter-Terrorism Center after police received information about a possible attack targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka announced the meeting, but officials had not publicly clarified the nature of the reported threat. The alert comes amid a week of serious violence at Polish schools and broader concerns about hybrid attacks attributed to Russia. Three knife attacks took place at schools within four days. On Wednesday, a 19-year-old vocational-school student in the central Mazovian province injured nine people. The following day, a 15-year-old killed a caretaker and injured two others at his former school in Leszczydol-Nowiny. Tusk said the suspect wore a helmet-mounted camera to film the attack. On Saturday, a 21-year-old woman wounded three women at an adult education school in Warsaw. Police detained 117 people nationwide for carrying knives or dangerous weapons, or for making threats against schools or students, and inspected 64,000 schools, mostly in the Mazovian province. Investigators reported finding no evidence that a social-media challenge was driving or coordinating the attacks. Tusk described the school attacks as spontaneous acts fueled by the online glorification of violence, rather than a large, organized campaign or violence rooted in one political ideology. He said some detained individuals were connected to ultraright circles and noted increased online searches for Nazi and far-right material, as well as mass killers celebrated online. He characterized children’s exposure to violent material through video games and crime stories as a broader civilizational phenomenon. School checks are to continue the following week to reduce the risk of copycat attacks. The report places the political threat assessment against this tense security backdrop, while emphasizing that the suspected threat to the prime minister and defence minister had not yet been detailed.

Polish security services were placed on alert after police received information about a possible attack targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. The article does not specify what the police learned or what form the potential threat might take, and it reports no attack or confirmed plan. A spokesperson for Poland’s Ministry of the Interior and Administration said representatives of the security services would meet at 11 am on Sunday at the headquarters of the Internal Security Agency to discuss the situation. Expected participants include representatives of the police, the State Protection Service and the Internal Security Agency. Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the minister responsible for coordinating the special services, told the Polish Press Agency that he could not provide detailed information about the meeting at that stage. He said media would be informed if a press briefing were scheduled. The report characterizes the story as developing and says further details may follow. It provides no additional information about the source, credibility or specifics of the warning.

Polish police received information about a possible attack targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, according to Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka, who announced the matter on X on Sunday. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński and Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister-coordinator of special services, ordered action in response to the information. Galecka said a meeting was scheduled for 11:00 a.m. that day at the Counter-Terrorism Centre of Poland’s Internal Security Agency, known as ABW. The report does not describe the nature, source, or credibility of the information, identify a suspect, or say whether a specific attack plan had been uncovered. It also provides no details about protective measures taken for the two officials or the outcome of the planned meeting. The announcement came as Polish authorities were on high alert following a wave of violence in schools. That violence included the killing of a school caretaker on Thursday. The article gives no further information linking the school incidents to the reported possible attack on the prime minister and defense minister. An accompanying photograph caption describes Tusk and Kosiniak-Kamysz speaking to the press near a field crater left by an unidentified object that appeared to be a Russian missile, on July 30, 2026. Overall, the report centers on the official response to a security warning and places it against a backdrop of heightened concern over recent violence in Poland. It does not establish that an attack occurred or that the reported threat was confirmed.

Poland’s Interior Ministry said authorities are investigating information that Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz may have been targeted in assassination attempts. Interior Ministry spokeswoman Karolina Galecka said a report about a potential attempt was sent to police through the State Protection Service (SOP). Earlier on Sunday, the ministry had instructed authorities to act on information received by police concerning a possible attack on the two officials. The article does not provide details about the nature of the alleged plots, any suspects, or whether arrests have been made. It reports that police, the SOP and the Internal Security Agency attended a meeting with Tusk and other ministers and security officials in Warsaw. The meeting concerned recent acts of violence in Polish schools, according to the accompanying photo caption. The article also notes that Poland had been on high alert following multiple stabbing attacks during the preceding week. The reports therefore come amid heightened security concerns, though the article does not establish a connection between the stabbings and the suspected attempts against the political leaders.

Polish security services held a special meeting on Sunday, October 11, after receiving information about a possible attack targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Special services spokesperson Jacek Dobrzynski declined to provide details but said authorities considered the threat “deadly serious” and believed there was a high probability it could be carried out. Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka said the State Protection Service, which is responsible for protecting ministers, forwarded an email containing information about the potential attack to police. The report places the warning in the context of Poland’s political and regional security environment. Violent crime is relatively rare in the country, but Poland is deeply politically polarised and faces security concerns related to its proximity to the war in Ukraine. The article also notes previous threats against Polish politicians: police detained a 23-year-old man in August accused of calling for the assassination of senior politicians. In 2024, Tusk said he had received threats following an assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. The article does not disclose the details or source of the latest threat, nor does it report any attack having occurred. It focuses on the authorities’ response and the seriousness with which officials are treating the warning.

Polish security services were scheduled to hold an emergency meeting after police received information about a possible attack targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz. Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński and special-services coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak ordered action, with the meeting set to take place at the Internal Security Agency’s Counter-Terrorism Centre. Authorities had not disclosed the threat’s nature or origin; Radio Zet reported that police had received an email about it. The alert comes amid heightened concern following several violent attacks at schools in the central Mazovian province. Over four days, three incidents left one person dead and several injured. Police subsequently detained 117 people nationwide over weapons or threats involving schools, and authorities checked around 64,000 schools. Tusk described the school attacks as spontaneous acts influenced by online glorification of violence, rather than the work of a large organized group. He also cited far-right activity among some detainees and growing interest in Nazi material and mass killers online. Poland’s broader security concerns include the war in neighbouring Ukraine and the possibility of Russian hybrid attacks against NATO’s eastern flank. The article also recalls a recent arrest over alleged calls to assassinate senior Polish politicians and threats Tusk said he received after the 2024 assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico. Rumours of further or coordinated attacks circulated online after the school incidents, prompting 59 schools—mostly in Mazovia—to suspend classes pre-emptively on Friday. Tusk said school checks would continue into the following week and urged parents and teachers to discuss children’s online activities and the risks of communities that glorify violence. Authorities had not provided further details about the reported threat against the two ministers.